El intento secesionista catalán ante la Constitución española y los tribunales: de la historia a los acuerdos de investidura y la amnistía

Abstract

The secessionist attempt of 2017 was the biggest challenge to the Spanish constitutional and democratic system in decades, although this process had begun earlier. This process is clearly contrary to the Spanish Constitution and its essential principles (especially, the principle of constitutional and territorial unity), which is why the democratic institutions, particularly the Constitutional Court, since its establishment, have been dismantling the legal mechanisms of this process; however, despite the application of Article 155 of the Constitution, agreements of concessions to the separatists have increased recently, culminating in the disastrous amnesty, endorsed by the Constitutional Court. The work analyzes the secessionist process, with historical references, from its contemporary beginnings, along with the decisions of the Constitutional Court that have annulled all those claims up to the constitutionally endorsed amnesty.